About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Thursday, July 05, 2007

July 5......

July 5 is the 186th (187th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 179 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Organization & Management "Hierarchies make some people dependent on others, blame the dependent for their dependency, and then use that dependency as a justification for further exercise of authority." — Martha Ackelsberg

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Bigotry, Chauvinism, & Theocracy "There will never be world peace until God's house and God's people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world." — Pat Robertson

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "As I was telling my husb—— . . . As I was telling President Bush . . . " — Condoleezza Rice, unmarried then national security advisor, now Secretary of State

Thought for the day: "Are you a good witch, or are you a bad witch?"

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

Night-Shining Clouds

Credit: Cloud Imaging Team (LASP, Univ. Colorado), AIM project, NASAClick picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation

EVENTS

● 645 - Flint-Sky-God K accedes to Mayan throne of Dos Pilas.

● 649 - St Martin I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

● 767 - Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1295 - Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England.

● 1415 - Jan Huss, German Bohemian reformer, burned at the stake.

● 1439 - At the Council of Florence, the Decree of Union ('Laententur Coeli') was signed, creating an official theological union between the Eastern (Orthodox) and Western (Catholic)churches. Unfortunately, the Eastern Church at large never accepted the document and a full working unity between these two major religious factions never occurred.

● 1610 - John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colonists for Newfoundland.

● 1768 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'We are reasonable creatures, and undoubtedly reason is the candle of the Lord. By enlightening our reason to see the meaning of the Scriptures, the Holy Spirit makes our way plain before us.'

● 1770 - Battle of Chesma and Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

● 1861 - Constitutional guarantees of Habeas Corpus suspended by Abraham Lincoln; in the following four years, some 18,000 "subversives" and peace activists were jailed without cause or charges in U.S.

● 1865 - The Salvation Army is founded in the East End of London, England by William Booth.

● 1865 - The world's first maximum speed law is enacted in England.

● 1878 - The coat of arms of the Baku governorate was established.

● 1884 - Germany takes possession of Cameroon.

● 1888 - Match girls in East End Long out on strike.

● 1891 - Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD

● 1892 - Andrew Beard was issued a patent for the rotary engine.

● 1893 - During a strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company, which had drastically reduced wages, the 1892 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago's Jackson Park was set ablaze, and seven buildings were reduced to ashes. The mobs raged on, burning and looting railroad cars and fighting police in the streets for a week, until 14,000 federal and state troops finally succeeded in putting down the strike.

● 1903 - Death of English theologian William Burt Pope, 81. His 'Compendium of Christian Theology' (1875-76) set forth the most powerful systematic arguments of his day for the holiness doctrine in Methodism.

● 1916 - Adelina and August Van Buren started on the first successful transcontinental motorcycle tour to be attempted by two women. They started in New York City and arrived in San Diego, CA, on September 12, 1916.

● 1922 - First International Passport, invented by Fridgof Nansen, recognized by international agreement, Geneva.

● 1961 - Seattle City Council and state legislature announce probes of incidents of local police brutality.

● 1962 - Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule.

● 1962 - Death of Helmut Richard Niebuhr, 67. Christian Ethics professor at Yale for 30years, Niebuhr is better remembered for his popular and oft-reprinted 1951 classic, 'Christ and Culture' -- a work that explores available options of relating one's personal faith to the world's highest and noblest principles.

● 1963 - In an instruction given by the Holy Office, disposal of the dead by cremation was officially granted sanction by the Catholic Church. (Belief in the resurrection of the dead had previously made cremation repugnant to many Christians.)

● 1965 - Congress Of Racial Equality national convention adopts and then rescinds resolutions calling for U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and Dominican Republic.

● 1971 - Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.

● 1973 - Catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters. This explosion has become a classic incident studied in fire department training programs worldwide.

● 1987 - First instance of the LTTE using suicide attacks on Sri Lankan Army. The Black Tigers are born and in the following years continue to use it to deadly effect.

● 1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service.

● 1991 - Regulators shut down the Pakistani-managed Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in eight countries. The charge was fraud, drug money laundering and illegal infiltration into the U.S. banking system.

● 1994 - The United States announced it would refuse further unrestricted immigration from Haiti. {This was a racist and homophobic move not for the health concerns stated.}

● 1995 - The U.S. Justice Department opts not to take antitrust action against Ticketmaster, ending a 13-month long fight with Pearl Jam. The band had used a rival ticket service in retaliation of Ticketmaster's tactics, and ironically, it was the use of that service that proved that Ticketmaster didn't have a monopoly.

● 2002 - In Algeria, 35 people were killed in violent attacks on the day that the country celebrated its 40 years of independence from France.

● 2002 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams died at age 83.

● 2003 - SARS is declared to be contained by the WHO.

● 2004 - First Indonesian presidential election by the nation.

● 2006 - Enron founder Kenneth Lay, who was facing decades in prison for one of the most sprawling business frauds in U.S. history, {allegedly} died at age 64. {I think it far more likely he is alive and well in the Middle East somewhere.}

● 2006 - Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting held at the UN in New York City because of the North Korean missile tests a day before.

● 2006 - Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942) {This was most convenient death in recent history, so convenient I believe it never happened.}

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:● St. Antonio Maria Zaccaria, priest (died 1539)● St. Athanasius the Athonite● St. Catherine, virgin, martyr● St. Cyrilla● St. Dominica● St. Domitian or Donation or Dominic, bishop, confessor, martyr● St. Edana, virgin● St. Erfyl● Sts. Fragan & Gwen● St. Jacutus, abbot, confessor● St. Marinus● St. Modwena● St. Nicomedes, martyr● St. Numerianus, bishop of Trier, confessor● St. Paul (515-25), bishop of Sens● St. Peter of Luxemburg, bishop of Metz, cardinal, confessor● St. Philomena● St. Triphina● St. Wendelin, confessor● St. Zoe (died 286)

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 23 (Civil Date: July 5)● Martyr Agrippina of Rome.● Martyrs Eustochius, Gaius, Probus, Lollius, and Urban of Ancyra.● Righteous Youth Artemius of Verkolsk.● Saints Joseph, Anthony and Ioannicius, abbots of Vologda.● St. Herman (Germanus), Archbishop of Kazan.● Translation of the Relics of St. Michael of Klops Monastery, fool-for-Christ.● New-Martyr Maxim, Bishop of Serphukhov (1931).● New-Martyr Archbishop Metrophan of Astrakhan, and Bishop Leonty of Enotaevsa, and those with them.● The Meeting of the Vladimir Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos.● Repose of Schemamonk Zosimas of Solovki (1855).

● Muslim-Brunei : Mohammed's Ascension

● Church of the SubGenius: X-Day (1998).

● Algeria : Independence Day (1962)

● Armenia: Constitution Day (1995)

● Cape Verde: Independence Day (1975).

● Czech Republic and Slovakia: Arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia (around 863).

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